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authorVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>2012-03-02 15:50:02 +0530
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-03-05 15:38:34 -0500
commit1b658f118b11de3c4052ed8cbdd5803cd1fa5670 (patch)
tree162160c05d29fc99b18d1914ffe2d614f2c9af6a /net/wireless
parentd665508b98d3cdbeb476e7d6848a513184a81ed0 (diff)
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cfg80211: Add an attribute to set inactivity timeout in AP mode
This patch adds an attribute, NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT, to set the inactivity timeout which can be used to remove the station in AP mode. This can be passed in NL80211_CMD_START_AP and used by the drivers which have AP MLME in firmware but don't support get_station() properly. To disable inactivity timer in userspace, wpa_s for example, there is a new flag, NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER, in nl80211_feature_flags through which drivers can register their capability to use the inactivity timeout to free the stations. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 25a470abd21d..4b6afc338aac 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
.len = NL80211_HT_CAPABILITY_LEN
},
[NL80211_ATTR_NOACK_MAP] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
};
/* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -2214,6 +2215,13 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (err)
return err;
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT]) {
+ if (!(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ params.inactivity_timeout = nla_get_u16(
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT]);
+ }
+
err = rdev->ops->start_ap(&rdev->wiphy, dev, &params);
if (!err)
wdev->beacon_interval = params.beacon_interval;